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Guide for New Contractors on how to be a Successful Contractor

Making the Jump from Employee to Contractor

Getting started as a new contractor can be confusing so we have created and published a number of guides for the new contractor to help them.

Sections.
1. Becoming a New Contractor or Staying Permie
2. Doing Your CV
3. Finding a Contract
4. Doing Great Interviews
5. Dealing with Agencies
6. How to be a Successful Contractor
7. Umbrella Company or Limited Company
8. Getting a Contractor Mortgage
9. The Insurance you will need as a New Contractor.


1. Becoming a Contractor or Staying Permie.

Should I Become an IT Contractor? Making the Career Choice

Ten Advantages of Being an IT Contractor

Advice for Graduates Coming Into IT

Is IT Contracting for me? What makes a good IT Contractor

25 Great Things about IT Contracting that you Might not be Aware of

At What Age is an IT Contractor Washed Up?

10 Things You do not want to find when starting a new IT Contract

The 13 Extra Costs of Being an IT Contractor


2. Doing Your CV.

A Client – How I selected Candidates to see

Seven Reasons a CV Will get Binned

How Agencies and Clients now want to see CVs

CV Tips from an Experienced IT Recruiter

A Client – Your CV has just 30 seconds to impress me

How to Lie on your CV and get away with it

3. Finding a Contract.

How to Get a Contract - 10 Steps to give you a Better Chance

Eight Alternative Ways of Getting an IT Contract (that are not often used)


4. Doing Great Interviews.

Ten Preparations to make before attending an Interview

The IT Contractors at Interview I want – by a Client

A great tip on how to find out heaps about the company where you are going for Interview

Ten Ways to fail an Interview

How to Prepare for a Telephone Interview

I keep getting turned down for Interviews – Any Advice?

7 Signs that tell an Interviewer you are lying through your teeth


5. Dealing with Agencies.

Fourteen Job Hunting Tips – How to Impress an Agency

Ten Reasons Why Agents are Complete Idiots

Attributes of the Perfect Contractor

6. How to be a Successful Contractor.

The 10 Things an IT Contractor Absolutely Must Know

Ten Factors that make a successful IT Contractor

The IT Contractors that really succeed

Ten Ways to Stay in a Contract for a Long Time

How IT Contractors Could be much, much, richer

When you leave a client, how to maximize the chances of coming back

Tips for Getting a Good IT Contract Rate

Don’t do what I did when I got into Terrible Tax Trouble


7. Umbrella Company or Limited Company.

Umbrella Company Guide


8. Getting a Contractor Mortgage as a New Contractor.

Getting Contractor Mortgages as a Limited Company Contractor

Getting Contractor Mortgages as an Umbrella Company Contractor


9. The Insurance you will need as a New Contractor.

The Contractor Insurance You May Need

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PHI Cover
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Life Cover
IT Contractor Life cover insurance

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